Candidate · State Assembly, District 71
Al Taylor
What this job does: Your district's vote in the New York State Assembly (150 members), the larger house of the Legislature. Members write and vote on state laws and the state budget. A term is two years.
- Holds this seat now
- Yes
- Office
- State Assemblymember, District 71 (since 2017)
- Occupation
- State Assemblymember and pastor
- Lives in
- Harlem, Manhattan
Background
- B.A. Lehman College; M.Div. Nyack College Alliance Theological Seminary; Doctorate of Ministry, Northeastern Seminary. source: assembly.ny.gov
- Chief of Staff to former Assemblymember Herman Farrell Jr. and a district leader before election. source: assembly.ny.gov
- Elected in a fall 2017 special election. source: assembly.ny.gov
- Founded the Man Up! in Harlem program in 2008; pastor of Infinity Mennonite Church. source: assembly.ny.gov
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